Danny battled the last of Walkers goons high over the street while Sam stood over Tucker who was dazed by a near miss earlier. Jazz carefully aimed an ecto-gun though she was afraid to fire and hit her brother by mistake. Finally, she got her chance and fired. Her shot didn't do much damage to the ghost but that moment of distraction was just the opening Danny needed. Quickly he captured the ghost in his thermos but as he turned to thank Jazz he was struck from behind. As he twisted in mid-air to dodge the following shots he saw a figure in red riding afuturistic jet-board.Amity Park's mysterious ghost hunter continued to fire at him as she dove out of the sky,but only the firstshot even came near him.
As they zigzagged crazily through the air some of her shots went wild and struck near by buildings. One hit the supports of a large billboard causing it to tip towards the street. As they continued their one-sided fight Danny simply tried to get away until he heard Jazz scream.
The few people on the street watched in horror as the billboard fell. Jazz was directly under it and there was no way she could get out of there in time! Danny didn't even stop to think, he just reacted. He flew faster than he ever had reaching Jazz barely seconds before the sign hit. Sam, Tucker, and Valerie watched the dust start to settle over the wreckage of the billboard, no one moved and for a moment everything was silent.
Valerie landed her jet-board and just stood there, staring. She almost fell down in shock when Phantom appeared floating over the wreckage holding Jazz. He drifted over to a clear spot and gently set Jazz down.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Y-yes," she said, "I think so."
They were interrupted by the hum of Valerie's gun as she prepared to fire. Jazz seemed to shake off her brush with death without a second thought as she marched over to the ghost hunter.
"What do you think you're doing?" Jazz screamed as she snatched the gun out of Valerie's hands. "Wasn't almost killing me once enough for you!"
"Almost killing you? I'm trying to save you from the ghost! Now give me my gun before he gets away."
"The only one I need saving from is you! Or did you not notice that all the damage was caused by your gun!"
"It's all the evil ghost boy's fault!"
"Why? Because he won't sit still and let you hurt him? And as for evil, you almost killed me, he saved my life. Somehow he doesn't look like the villain here to me."
"You don't know what he did! He got my father fired!"
"That's why you're hunting him?" Said Jazz with disgust. "What do you think will happen to the people who work in these stores?" She pointed at some of the shops that lined the street. Many of them were badly damaged. "How many of them won't have a job to go to tomorrow because of you."
"But I didn't mean to! I was trying to stop the ghost. "
"Do you think that will make a bit of difference to them? Do you think that if you say 'It was an accident. It wasn't my fault.' They'll say 'Oh that's okay, I don't mind loosing my job'? Go home and quit playing at being a ghost hunter before someone really does get hurt."
"What do you mean 'playing'? I AM a ghost hunter!"
"No you're not. A real ghost hunter knows about ghosts strengths and weaknesses, you just show up and start blasting. A responsible ghost hunter either uses weaponry that can't harm humans or is very careful that no bystanders are in the line of fire." With that she turned and walked away still holding Valerie's gun. Valerie was left standing alone in the middle of the deserted street.
Stupid 3 A.M. plot bunnies, they won't leave me alone. I really meant to work on my Detective Conan story but this story won't leave me alone.
I don't hate Valerie, in fact she's one of my favorite characters but she can be described as "She's made up her mind and you can't confuse her with the facts." Also she seems kind of careless about the safety of bystanders. This is a dangerous combination.
By the way, I said I'd reply to reviews but I can't do this when the e-males bounce like happened to two replies I sent last week.